Show ii GIVES 1 YES OPINION ON STEWARTS STEWART'S GAS CAS Attorney General Confirms Idea Law Violated by hy Health Officer CANT CAN'T RAISE QUARANTINE No XO Ono Oin Authorized to 0 Remove Fin Fla FlaIn In Stipulated Time rime Ph Physicians Physician's Certificate C le As a sequel to the thc charges of un pro pro- conduct filed led against Dr DI M. M Lake Medical society against Dr M MR 01 R Stewart health h alth commissioner ioner At it At- At V lorney torney General Dree en yesterday rendered ren ron dered Clell an opinion which will have grea great bearing on the case before the society The attorney general hol holds s that i a quarantine Hag flag must t be he displayed fo to for twenty one days das In scarlet fever cases case and that any anyone one Interfering with I It without authority from the thc attending physician Is guilty of a misdemeanor and ad ao should bo ho punished Tho The opinion was vas given ghun to Dr T. T B n. r Beatly BeaU secretary of tho the state hoard boar of health who vho had Dr Stewart wart h iv In mind when he lie a asked kd tho the following question Has Uns Stewart Sll in Mind A A case presenting the typical symptoms symptoms toms of scarlet fever diagnosed and ami reported as such by b the attending physician phy Ihy- who iio thereafter dl discovers nc no evidence evId nce to chang change his opinion is duly uly quarantined d and a flag placed by the local board hoar of health Has lIas tho the health officer the tile right or power to visit the said patient without the knowledge or 01 consent of the attending physician at atthe atthe the end of the second week weel of the quarantine and antI thereupon assert that the patient was not and had not been heen i Ba afflicted with scarlet fever also re removing removing removing re- re moving the flag releasing the patient without and raising the quarantine Tho Tue attorney generals general's official opinion opinIon ion fou Is as aH follows Statute Is Plain So far as material to the question submitted section l 12 of chapter 45 session laws of 1899 reads read as follows follow It shall be the duty uty of every physician I or other person caring for the sick Inthe in inthe the state of Utah to 10 make a report to the local board of health Immedi Immediately atel after such uch person becomes b aware of the existence of oC any case cae of scarlet carl fever fc diphtheria smallpox etc In e and a 1 his bis or her charge i penalty Is attached for or failure to do so 0 t When this report Is made the person t must be quarantined and 1 a yellow ellow nag hag ho he dl displayed on the premises where when such person Is domiciled an and shall not be removed or taken down own for fOl twenty twenty- one on days das and no person who has been affected with scarlet fever etc elc shall be permitted per to leave the house durIng during dur dur- ur- ur ing the lIve same period In which he lie or she ti Is quarantined without a a. permit from flOm T of the board boar of health to be Issued on j. of a certificate from the at attending attending at- at tending physician that all danger of P tt communicating tho the disease isea e has passed passed The law seems to be he plain an and unI unambiguous un un- ambiguous and does docs not demand nn any technical Interpretation to discover its c meaning I Guilty of Misdemeanor is stricken with scarlet c If It a person f. f S fever or other contagious disease the physician In charge chargo must report the I 0 case tp the local board of health and an th the IH person Ison so afflicted must Immediately Immedi immedi- be quarantined an and prevented from carrying the disease to others and this quarantine must last twenty- twenty one OIW days unless the attending physician V j o clan cian shall sooner be satisfied and certify thy that all danger of communicating the he disease has posse passed Without this certificate cate no one Is authorized to raise the tl-ft quarantine or to tear down I tho the Hag lag and If Ie an any one lUe docs does so ho Is guilty I of 1 demeanor and should be pun puo- ii The quarantine regulations are for the protection of the community c. c arid Iu the safety of the people an anY and Y- Y should b b. b be vigorously enforced i |